DC Moore Gallery is pleased to announce its summer group exh
ibition\, Woods\, Lovely\, Dark\, and Deep\, curated by John Zinsser\, on v
iew from June 20 – August 15 with an opening reception on June 20 from 6 –
8 pm. This show juxtaposes historical and contemporary painters and photogr
aphers as a way of re-thinking “landscape” and its associated meanings. Zin
sser began with an intuitive notion\, looking at artists for whom this repr
esentational genre allows a revealing of hidden places or psychological for
eboding. For many\, illusion is played against literal reality\, whether in
terms of paint physicality or received photographic treatment of subject m
atter.

The tensions between nature as observed and its metapho
rical role are heightened as we move forward in a modernist trajectory\, st
arting with examples from Charles Burchfield\, Romare Bearden and Fairfield
Porter. Milton Avery\, April Gornik and Jake Berthot all developed their w
ork alongside the ascendency of formalist abstraction\, and fully respond t
o the objectivity of that language. Photographers Duane Michals\, David Hil
liard and Noriko Furunishi take the historical tradition of plein air paint
ing and invert its meanings\, summoning fictive narrative fantasies through
factual encounters. A younger crop of painters—including Max Jansons\, Liz
Markus\, Daniel Heidkamp\, Claire Sherman and Sissel Kardel—return landsca
pe to the realm of the sublime and fantastic\, with a range of inventive an
d unorthodox strategies.